hierarchy

Hierarchy

A group of people who form an ascending chain of power or authority.

Officers in a government, for example, form an escalating series of ranks or degrees of power, with each rank subject to the authority of the one on the next level above. In a majority of hierarchical arrangements, there are a larger number of people at the bottom than at the top.

Originally, the term was used to mean government by a body of priests. Currently, a hierarchy is used to denote any body of individuals arranged or classified according to capacity, authority, position, or rank.

HIERARCHY, eccl. law. A hierarchy signified, originally, power of the
priest; for in the beginning of societies, the priests were entrusted with
all the power but, among the priests themselves, there were different
degrees of power and authority, at the summit of which was the sovereign
pontiff, and this was called the hierarchy. Now it signifies, not so much
the power of the priests as the border of power.

Paul Trollope remains the overwhelming favourite with the bookmakers, and is understood to be one of a number of figures from across the game to be interviewed by the Bluebirds' hierachy over the weekend.

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